Posted on 10/23/2019 8:40:01 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Seattle Public Schools Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee (ESAC) released a rough draft of notes for its Math Ethnic Studies framework in late September, which attempts to connects math to a history of oppression.
The framework is broken into four different themes: “Origins, Identity, and Agency,” “Power and Oppression,” “History of Resistance and Liberation,” and “Reflection and Action.”
The committee suggests that math is subjective and racist, saying under one section, “Who gets to say if an answer is right,” and under another, “how is math manipulated to allow inequality and oppression to persist?”
Jason Rantz of KTTH in Seattle noted that, “ESAC is made up of a number of educators and was created due to a legislature mandate to ‘advise, assist, and make recommendations to the office of the superintendent of public instruction regarding the identification of ethnic studies materials.'”
It is also stated in the document that Western mathematics is “used to disenfranchise people and communities of color.”
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K-12 Math Ethnic Studies Framework
Who is a Mathematician?
Where does Power and Oppression show up in our math experiences?
How has math been used to resist and liberate people and communities of color from oppression?
In what ways does mathematical literacy impact how we think?
So many questions. So few answers.
This is cultural revolution type lunacy. These types of suggestions are not funny, they are dangerous.
I wish I could have used that one 50y ago.
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 2 = 5
Racism, being the belief that other races are inferior. I wonder what starts those kind of ideas?
ESAC?
You have to wonder if there is anything where whites will say enough? Where they will step up to protect their children and grandchildren?
I’d like to see “people and communities of color” enjoy the fruits of “disenfranchising” themselves from Western math.
Be my guest. Include all the other benefits of Western Civilization while you’re at it.
All you need to do is go into any advanced university math/engineering class and look around. You’re going to see ethnic/POC diversity everywhere.
Sounds like someone simply sucks at math and is looking for an excuse.
LOL!! What idiots!
Maybe they’re tired of people counting the number of homeless people wandering the streets? Or a daily count of street turds? If you can’t count, you can’t report.
This is for a social studies class
The actual high school math curriculum addressees the usual algebra, geometry, calculus and statistics.
https://www.seattleschools.org/academics/curriculum/mathematics/high_school_mathematics
Racist because one needs an actual functioning brain inside their cranium.
Guessing that wackos like this teach that 1 + 1 = anything you want it to be, and that there is no right answer. That will significantly improve minority test scores.
Public schools are merely extensions of our vast progressive government bureaucracy, thus, they are increasingly corrupted by money and ideology. “Education” is a motivation further down the list of their priorities
Anything to avoid the incontrovertible (and oh so unfashionable) facts of human biodiversity.
Predicted by George Orwell.
The mere fact there is something called an “ethnic studies advisory committee” is sheer lunacy. Further, they simply aren’t doing “ethnic” students a bit of good. Con artists, quacks, and charlatans. Very sad what has been done to our education system. As AG Barr pointed out, this isn’t decay, it is active sabotage.
Directly from their handout:
“Western mathematics as the only legitimate expression of mathematical identity and intelligence”.
As an Engineer I never knew there was “Western” mathematics. Guess I went to a bad school? I was always taught that math was a universal language, silly me.
This afternoon I’ll rework all my budgets using “Eastern” mathematics, maybe my profit margins will improve? Hell, I might even speak with our accountants, perhaps they can change the generally accepted forms of accounting. I might end up being a millionaire by the end of the day?
Math is racist. White men built it.
They need to deal with it.
Or—go back to living in caves trying to create fire with sticks.
Their call.
2 + 2 = 4
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